Life With a 2019 RAV4 Hybrid
It took a bit of soul searching, but after nearly a decade of driving cars with plugs, my wife and I recently went plugless with one of our vehicles. We purchased a 2019 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid. I have an acquaintance…
John O'Dell
I’m John O’Dell – the green car guy – and for more than 25 years I’ve been an automotive writer, editor and analyst specializing in alternative vehicles and fuels.
LA Auto Show PHEVS, 2019
EVs may be the future, but a lot of money is being bet on plug-in hybrids filling a lot of parking spots until that future arrives and conquers all. Six new PHEVs and PHEV concepts headed for production debuted at…
Los Angeles Auto Show EVs, 2019
There’s still a lot to see at the ongoing 2019 Los Angeles Auto Show if you are in the market for the newest of the clean vehicles bring offered by automakers. Among the show’s debuts, many, like the electric Mustang…
Tesla Cybertruck: EV, Pickup, and Weird
Sometimes, a picture is worth 1,000 words. The all-electric Tesla Cybertruck made it first public appearance Thursday evening and while most everything at the launch went well, the smashed side windows prove that even though many of his fans think…
VW’s ID Space Vizzion Debuts
Volkswagen’s new take on the traditional family hauler, the ID Space Vizzion, is a long, low and wiiiiiiide all-electric wagon that, the company has said, will enter the European market in 2021 with a U.S. version likely in 2022. The…
Ford Unveils Electric Mach-E, Mustang’s New Stablemate
It’s become a cliché to call every new EV a Tesla fighter, so we won’t do it, but the new Ford Mustang Mach-E certainly wants to be an alternative to Elon Musk’s upcoming Model Y crossover. The two share similar…
Revealed: Is This Ford’s Mustang Mach-E Crossover?
Update: It Is! (Originally posted 11/15/19) We won’t speculate on authenticity, but a Ford follower appears to have uncovered a premature unveiling of the new Mustang Mach-E electric crossover. Ford has scheduled the Mustang Mach-E worldwide reveal for Nov. 17,…
ID Space Vizzion Joins VW’s EV List
Volkswagen will be using the LA auto show to premier a new EV concept that’s soon to be a production vehicle. It’s called the ID Space Vizzion and it plays off an earlier concept, the ID Vizzion sporty sedan. You…
Infiniti EVs On the Way
Company Favors Plugless ‘Range-Extended’ Technology Infiniti is finally embracing electrification, with the first of a line of Infiniti EVs likely due within two years. The decision to start moving away from gasoline comes almost a decade after Infiniti’s parent and…
New ‘Mustang-Inspired’ Ford EV Debuts Nov. 17
Ford will unveil its Mustang-inspired electric crossover on Nov. 17, in advance of the Nov. 21 public opening of this year’s LA auto show.. Not much is known yet about the new Ford EV, which sometimes get called an SUV…